Collapsible-lantern casing.



IPAVTENTED' AUG. 4, 1903.

C. H. STONEBRI DGE. OOLLAPSIBLE LANTERN CASING. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 13, 1902. RENEWED JAN. 10. 1903.

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PATENT- OFFICE.

COLLAPSlBLE- LANTERN CASING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 73 5,681, dated August 4, 1903. Application filed March 13, 1902. Renewed January 10, 1903. Serial No. 138,521. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. STONE- BRIDGE,a citizen of the United S tates,residing at New York,in the county of New York and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible-Lantern Casings, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved casing or holder for collapsible lanterns which is designed to receive and hold the lantern when the separate parts thereof are compactly folded together and also a candle for use in said lantern, a further object being to provide a casing or receptacle for a collapsible lantern such as is described and claimed in United States Letters Patent No. 662,474, granted to me November 27, 1900, and with this and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class spe cified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by the same reference characters in each of the views, Figure 1. is a side view of my improved casing or receptacle for collapsible lanterns and showing the same open; and Fig. 2, a longitudinal section showing the same closed, the lantern being also indicated therein.

In the practice of my invention I provide a casing or receptacle a, which is preferably composed of comparatively stiff leather, but which may be composed of any desired material, and which isopen at one end, as shown at a the back portion thereofbeing provided at said end with a flap a which is adapted to be folded over the open end of the casing or receptacle and secured to the front thereof, as shown in Fig. 2, said flap and said front of the casing or receptacle being provided with the separate parts b and b of a fastening device similar to an ordinary glove-fastener. The casing or receptacle as thus made consists of a pocket, which is closed by the flap a ,and secured transversely ofsaid flap closely adjacent to the mouth of the pocket, casing,

The position of the collapsible lantern in i the casing or receptacle is represented at e in Fig. 2 by dotted lines, and said lantern when the separate parts thereof are folded together is slightly shorter than the casing or receptacle, as is also shown in Fig. 2, the difference between the length of the lantern and the length of the casing or receptacle being about equal to the transverse diameter of the candle-holder d. The folding of the flap a so as to close the casing or receptacle, as shown in Fig. 2, also securely holds the candle c in the holder d, the ends of the holder being closed by the adjacent portions of the casing or receptacle, and when the lantern is taken out of the casing or receptacle and set up for use the candle is removed from the holder (1 and placed therein.

This device is particularly adapted 'to accomplish the result for which it is intended, and it is also particularly adapted for use by sportsmen, hunters, and others of this class who may desire to carry a lantern in a pocket or who desire to have a lantern ready for use at all times and also desire to be able to carry the same or any number thereof in a bag, valise, trunk, or other receptacle.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, isv A casing or receptacle for collapsible lanterns, said casing being oblong and substantially rectangular in form and being open at one end, and one side thereof at the open end being extended to form a (lap which is adapted to be folded over said open end and to be secured to the other side, and a tubular candleholder open at both ends and connected with said flap transversely thereof and adjacent to the open end of the casing or recepmole, said candle-holder being adapted to enence of the subscribing witnesses, this 11th ter within the open end of the casing or reday of March, 1902.

ceptacle when said flap is folded over said end I CHARLES H. STONEBRIDGE.

my invention I have signed my name, in presand secured, substantially as shown and de- Witnesses: scribed. F. A. STEWART,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as I F. F. TELLER. 

